San Marino

2023

Commemorative coin

The 500th anniversary of the death of Perugino

Official Journal of the European Union

The design shows in the centre the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus, detail of the painting ‘Madonna with Child, Saint Sebastian and Saint John the Baptist’ by Perugino, preserved in the Uffizi Galleries (Florence). At the left-hand side are the inscription ‘PERUGINO’, the dates ‘1523’ and ‘2023’ and the mintmark ‘R’. At the right- hand side is the name of the issuing country ‘SAN MARINO’ and at the bottom right are the initials of the author Maria Angela Cassol, MAC. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

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Pietro Vannucci (≈1448-1523), called 'Perugino' (from Perugia), was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was considered the most important master of the Umbrian School and was Raphael's teacher. His own teachers were probably Piero della Francesca and Andrea del Verrocchio, in whose workshop Leonardo da Vinci, among others, was trained. In 1481, he painted his most famous painting, Christ Handing the Keys to Peter, one of the works from the wall fresco cycle in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, in which Italy's most celebrated painters of the time collaborated. The perspective depth stretching particularly impressed the people of the time. The ''Madonna and Child with St. Sebastian and St. John the Baptist'' from 1493 is an oil painting on panel - commissioned for the chapel of the church of the monastery of San Domenico in Fiesole - now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The coin designed by ''Maria Angela Cassol'' shows the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus as a detail of this painting.

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